Essays on Environmental Issues

We have always seen cricketers paint their faces white and mothers insisting their kids to apply sun screen to protect themselves from UV or Ultraviolet rays. Ultraviolet rays are harmful sun rays that increase the risk of skin cancer, cataract and harm the immune system....

If we look around the world today, we see things that make us cry. When we open any newspaper, we see tragic news, one after another. We wonder why there is sorrow and suffering today when the world is so technologically advanced. Then we realize...

The ozone layer above the Earth is in fact disappearing, and has been thinning since the 1970. The ozone layer is a layer above the Earth that protects us from ultraviolet rays which cause cancer, and could potentially kill a human. Ultraviolet rays also affect...

The Earth’s atmosphere consists of 5 layers. They stretch from the surface up. The ozone (O3) resides in the stratosphere which is from the surface of the earth up 50 kms. 10% of the ozone is in the troposphere. This only stretches from the Earth’s...

Wind energy is renewable and can undoubtedly be an efficient alternative to fossil fuels, but there are few negative impacts that wind energy has on the environment, which can be understood when a detailed Environmental Impact Analysis (EIA) is done. These factors have to be...

Acid rain can be a threat to both humans and the ecosystem and because humans are mostly the ones to blame for causing acid rain, I believe that they have the obligation to protect the environment. First of all, what causes acid rain? There are...

The idea that boomers are “failing to accept the truth” and reality of climate change causes many baby boomers’ grandchildren in America to “hate” them (Stromberg, 2019). The name of their generation was even associated with ‘OK, boomer’ – a pejorative expression described by McGinn...